Comments on: I’ll teach my girl 100 words

By: Astacia

Astacia — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:20:34 +0000

Thanks for the shared joy, everyone. I would love for her to sign, but when your a cortical kid, those midline movements are VERY difficult.

I went to the store yesterday afternoon and bought a case of puddung cups

By: MamaSkates

MamaSkates — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:56:06 +0000

so stinkin cool!

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:27:08 +0000

Happy Dance indeed! I think with any method is to follow the kiddo’s interest and there was obviously an interest in pudding. Yippeee!

By: Mama

Mama — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:27:51 +0000

Hooray, I love success in small steps!!

By: Stacey Harris

Stacey Harris — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:45:56 +0000

PECS helped us also ! and Social Storys also!

Great to hear about a positive IEP meeting

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:06:01 +0000

Yippee..I love PECS..they’ve done wonders for Joey..We also did the Hanan program for Damien.

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:24:35 +0000

When Luke was in preschool they started with sign, it was so-so. Then they tried to add some PECS — didn’t work at all. When he started kindergarten he started off doing great with sign, so why change a good thing? Then he just started making all signs about the same (mumbling in sign). So PECS was added at the end of kindergarten. He started 1st grade with a PECS vocabulary of about 15 words so he could say “I want …” At the end of 1st quarter he was up to 65 words and started “This is …”. I’m not sure how many he is up to now that we are at the mid-point of 2nd quarter, but things are going great. I’m requesting a meeting for early spring to move him onto a communication device.

By: tesyaa

tesyaa — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:07:03 +0000

We haven’t tried PECS as much as we should, but when I finally decided that my son needed to be toilet trained once and for all, I made up a bunch of homemade cards with pictures of a toilet on them. We had “toilet cards” all over the house. Slowly, very slowly, it began to work. We now no longer need the cards – he has a word approximation that he uses to tell us he needs to use the toilet. (And he prefers that my husband be the one to take him – I don’t object )